Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Nathan M Farrugia


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The result was   Userfied. Note that the article will need to show that the subject is notable (thus addressing concerns below) before it is moved back into the mainspace. UltraExactZZ Said~ Did 13:05, 16 April 2012 (UTC)

Nathan M Farrugia

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An author, whose first book will be released in a few weeks. References are about the book and some are just PR pieces. No independent, reliable references about him. Prod was contested with, "added sufficient media coverage". Bgwhite (talk) 22:30, 14 April 2012 (UTC)
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 * delete fails WP:CREATIVE. Possible WP:AUTOBIO LibStar (talk) 04:13, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment Fan of author but do not know personally, so hopefully no conflict of interest. Have removed all references considered unsuitable. Will locate and add multiple independent reviews in order to fulfil WP:CREATIVE. Zippy2012 (talk) 19:15, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment The only problem with the articles currently in the article is that they don't really show notability. The first link isn't really about Farrugia himself, but about his book. It would help show notability for the book, but not so much for the author. The second link does talk about Farrugia, but I think it might be a press release and those can not show notability, as they're considered primary sources.  The third link was just to a page on the Apple website. That's actually not even usable as a link, so I've removed it. You can't link to merchant sites. To prove the claim, you should have a news article or something to that extent. The final link to Coeur de Lion is so insanely brief of an article with an even shorter mention of Farrugia that it can't show notability at all. It merely states that Farrugia has a book and isn't even really much of a comment. None of these links show notability for Farrugia. It would probably be best if you were to userfy the author's article as well. I remember trying to find sources for Farrugia's book and they were pretty scant to begin with- there weren't many for the author at all that weren't the briefest of mentions. The thing to remember is that 99.9% of authors are not notable outside of their works, which is what you need to show in order to justify an article for the author. This means that you need to have articles that are about the author that focus predominantly on them. Of course they'll mention the books, but the books shouldn't be the main focus of the article- the author should be discussed as well.Tokyogirl79 (talk) 19:36, 15 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Comment I don't think this author has any notability outside of his work. Have userified page. Might revisit later if appropriate. Zippy2012 (talk) 04:29, 16 April 2012 (UTC)


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